Kevin Boske - VSTA : personal

My Last Post

KevinBoske — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:36:00 GMT

Friends, this is my last post. I've enjoyed being a part of the Office developer community for the past 4 years and meeting everyone over the past 10 years from the Microsoft side of the fence. My next part of the journey will be from the other side of the fence as a Senior Program Manager for SmartDesktop.

I'm really excited about the future plans for VSTA and VSTO, and some of the other tricks the team has up its sleeve. :) I've been in touch with the folks working on the OpenXML SDK and I'm seeing some great work and ideas. Keep watching all the Office developer blogs, I know I will.

A lot of folks here at Microsoft refer to leaving MS as "retiring" even though they are simply moving to another job. I like to think of it as "Graduating". Who knows, maybe I'll be back for some post-graduate work someday.

- Kevin J. Boske

Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Applications.

The only constant at Microsoft

KevinBoske — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:13:00 GMT

Change.

It's really the only constant here at MS. I've made a change. I'm no longer working in the Office Team, I've moved on to the Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) team. Anyone who has met me professionally knows that I'm a big fan of .NET, and big fan of enabling non-pro developers to build the solutions they need to get their jobs done.

As we say around here, I super-excited about this opportunity. I don't have much to discuss currently, the Visual Studio Team just shipped Orcas, so its a new cycle and a great time to start. Over the next few months, I'll start to provide more information about current VSTA, and about some of the ideas (*as we make them public) we have for future versions.

Cheers,

Kevin

She's Actual Size

KevinBoske — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:47:00 GMT

I mentioned that we were expecting a baby girl anytime. Well, Molly Ryan Boske arrived Thrusday morning. mother and baby are fine. She weighed in at a whopping 10lbs 1oz, which reminds me of the They Might Be Giants Song, She's Actual Size. Microsoft provides great benefits, and I really have to thank the company for taking such good care of us all. I'll be OOF for the rest of the year (4 weeks parental leave).